Dione Surdez's Profile
Dear Love,
I should tell you something about myself. I certainly know enough about you to fill a lifetime.
When I was a little girl I always dreamed of expressing my voice in some form of composition. Instead of exchanging torn pieces of paper between myself and my best girlfriend, we wrote everything in one notebook and simply passed it back and forth between classes. My hope? One day I wanted to publish that notebook. I wanted the whole world to know how it felt to be a Midwestern farm girl.
Also a quiet girl who spoke when spoken to, I was suddenly and startlingly inspired at age 14 to pen my first poetic piece. The feeling simply overtook my soul. Have you felt this before? I found this to be overwhelmingly gratifying and a basis of expressive creativity throughout my life.
I am currently a majoring in Creative Writing and minoring in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Southern California. I have penned volumes of poetry and I am forming the beginnings for that novel of which I have always dreamed and am also writing a children's book. I have recently finished my first documentary short, "The Kevin Nichols Project" and am working on my first full length documentary, "Eating Ethanol."
I am a published writer. I wrote an essay entitled “Women In Music [Business]: A Gender Experience†which will be included in Dr. Mari Womack’s next edition of The Other Fifty Percent. My piece “Cleansed†appeared in the October 26, 2005 edition of the Santa Monica College Corsair. Another piece entitled “Delegate To Jesus†is included in a collection of spiritual pieces published by the Poets on Fire.
Right now, I am posting from my collection "lowercase." The reason that this is happening is so that I can put this collection to rest. "lowercase" is a wonderfully and hopelessly romantic tale that broke my heart clean through. And, I just needed to get it out of my system one last time.
Have you ever been in love? Have you ever given 100% of yourself? I have often wondered. "lowercase" is a journey from beginning to end. It is a love story, an emotional rollercoaster (thank you, Vivian Green), a saga in a changing industry. Please, let me know how you enjoy the ride, as you have my heart and soul.
Love,
Redizm, Red, Dione, Dakota, Deezie, Dionovich, Red Poet Gurl...
...or whatever you are calling me these days
